Pittsburgh In Running For Winter Classic 2011

[huscroft6]

Well at least the Pens have that too look forward too

[Sweetleaf22]

40 years and counting since Boston won a CUP,,,,,,,lol

[Windy City Irish]

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Sweetleaf22]

40

[Windy City Irish]

its a hockey night in Boston

how about pittsburgh

make another fake bet and get back to us.

[Sweetleaf22]

Ham on, Ham on, Ham on whole wheat, alright



40 years, and counting

[HAMILROCK]

^^^ you need to replenish those reward points...

[Windy City Irish]

"Jeremy"

at home
drawing pictures
of mountain tops
with him on top
lemon yellow sun
arms raised in a V
dead lay in pools of maroon below

daddy didn't give attention
to the fact that mommy didn't care
king jeremy the wicked
ruled his world

[huscroft6]

Bruins have an excuse, we've never had the best hockey player in the history of the planet Earth on their team, nor do the Bruins have the best fans in history...

[bigsportsguy2006]

Originally Posted by huscroft6

Bruins have an excuse, we've never had the best hockey player in the history of the planet Earth on their team, nor do the Bruins have the best fans in history...

yea, valid point. neither does philly

[The Nac]

Originally Posted by huscroft6

Bruins have an excuse, we've never had the best hockey player in the history of the planet Earth on their team, nor do the Bruins have the best fans in history...

Hey man, don't sell Bobby Orr short. He was pretty ****in' awesome.

[HAMILROCK]

Originally Posted by The Nac

Hey man, don't sell Bobby Orr short. He was pretty ****in' awesome.

agreed he was the best ever, right beside gretzky...

[HAMILROCK]

Originally Posted by huscroft6

Bruins have an excuse, we've never had the best hockey player in the history of the planet Earth on their team, nor do the Bruins have the best fans in history...

don't ever repeat that in front of Don Cherry...LOL!

[Sweetleaf22]

Winter Classic to showcase NHL’s best rivalry
By ALAN ROBINSON, AP Sports Writer
17 minutes ago

PITTSBURGH (AP)—Mike Knuble(notes) teed up a puck on a wooden platform a few inches above Heinz Field’s green grass and lofted a perfectly placed wrist shot between the uprights.

Call it the first goal by an NHL player on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ home turf. Or was it the first field goal?

On a postcard-perfect midsummer 85-degree day—one that was 47 degrees above the average high temperature for Jan. 1 in Pittsburgh—the sight of the Penguins’ Sidney Crosby(notes), the Capitals’ Knuble and three other players exhibiting their skills Tuesday while previewing the NHL Winter Classic illustrated the not-uncomfortable juxtaposition between football and hockey.



As Penguins president David Morehouse said, Pittsburgh has long been known as a football town, but it’s now one of the best hockey towns, too. For one day, hockey will enjoy a change of venue as the Capitals and Penguins shift what might be the sport’s best rivalry—even NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said so— into one of the NFL’s best-known stadiums.

Somehow, everything seems to fit.

As the NHL drew up preliminary plans for a game that will showcase Crosby and Alex Ovechkin(notes) to the sport’s biggest single-game TV audience outside of the Stanley Cup finals, it realized a hockey rink fits perfectly for spectators between Heinz’s 20-yard lines. Center ice will be at the 50. There was no such comfortable fit when the Winter Classic rink was wedged into baseball’s Fenway Park and Wrigley Field the last two seasons.

Go outside and play, indeed.

“We’re going to have an unbelievable chance to make great memories in a special event like this,” Crosby said. “It seems like this is a great setup. I don’t know what the baseball stadiums were like, but this one seems like a pretty normal fit.”

Steelers president Art Rooney II already anticipates some players lobbying to attend the game before the team leaves for Cleveland and a regular season-ending game the following day. Maybe director of football operations Kevin Colbert will, too; he is one of the Penguins’ biggest fans.


Winter Classic to showcase NHL's best rivalry - NHL - Yahoo! Sports

[Eleven]

Originally Posted by The Nac

I wouldn't mind either city getting it, tbh. I enjoy that they switch cities each time, so I actually don't care where it's played. I'm just wondering when Toronto is going to get into this.

Werent they saying there'd be 2 outdoor games from now on: the jan 1st one and the other one in Canada for Hockey day in Canada?